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Call for papers on postcolonial museum practice

Commonwealth Association of Museums plans triennial conference

AHRC announces doctoral studentships at UK museums and cultural institutions

Funded studentships to be hosted at 14 institutions

Museum volunteers recognised with Queen’s Award for Voluntary Service

Honours mark the exceptional contribution of volunteer groups

Museums should use Trump protest artefacts “to challenge intolerance”

Several institutions are collecting items related to US president’s state visit

Controversy over PHM’s removal of “adult human female” sticker

Message taken down after complaints that it was "associated with hostility"

World news digest

Brazil: Nine months after fire gutted Rio de Janeiro’s National Museum, staff have recovered more objects than expected from the ruins. The objects salvaged, some of which are in fragments, include Egyptian steles, geological samples and the 12,000-year-old human fossil Luzia.    India: The building that will house New Delhi’s Kiran Nadar Museum of Art …

Museums and galleries across UK win Riba awards

National awards and Stirling Prize to be revealed later this year

Funding news

Making collections accessible

ACE scheme to help organisations develop environmental practice

Deadline approaching for expressions of interest to Accelerator programme

Lonnie Bunch to lead Smithsonian

Organisation operates 19 museums in the US

Museum of Liverpool ranked as UK’s most accessible visitor attraction

Museum of Liverpool overtakes Tate Modern for improvements to disabled access

Local cultural spending down 40% since beginning of austerity

Most deprived areas hit hardest, says IFS